density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … workers reduced unemployed by 0.8 percentage points. Through the lens of an aggregate matching function, more activation is …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform … decline in the replacement rate for long-term unemployed. We find that Hartz IV was a major driver for the decline of Germany …’s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

costs due to changes in the unemployment insurance system and costs due to behavioral responses of unemployed workers …This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made …

relation between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand can be the result of different …

In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to … counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …